HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES VII

American clergyman (1813-1887)

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When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral-bell is already rung.

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There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.

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Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.

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There is no servant like God. No other being so humbles himself, and so bows down under weakness, and so lifts up with his strength, as God in the plenary service of Love.

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The beginning is the promise of the end.

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A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.

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Riches are not an end of life but an instrument of life.

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Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.

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We sleep, but the loom of life never stops; and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up tomorrow.

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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

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Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.

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Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.

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The divine qualities of man are but the slightest hints, the faintest intimations, of the attributes of God.

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A man's soul ought to be as the heavens were on the night when the shepherds looked up, and saw them full of angels as well as stars.

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As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.

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Patriotism, in our day, is made to be an argument for all public wrong, and all private meanness. For the sake of country a man is told to yield every thing that makes the land honorable. For the sake of country a man must submit to every ignominy that will lead to the ruin of the state through disgrace of the citizen. There never was a man so unpatriotic as Christ was. Old Jerusalem ought to have been everything to him. The laws and institutions of his country ought to have been more to him than all the men in his country. They were not, and the Jews hated him; but the common people, like the ocean waters, moved in tides towards his heavenly attraction wherever he went.

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Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.

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Amid the discords of this life, it is blessed to think of heaven, where God draws after him an everlasting train of music; for all thoughts are harmonious and all feelings vocal, and so there is round about his feet eternal melody.

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